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I'm teaching this weekend about the dangers of strife and the importance of peace.

If you know how important peace is, you'll do anything you have to do in order to have it.

But if you don't realize how important it is, then you'll never have it because the devil is constantly setting you up to get you upset.

It's challenging to go through one whole day and not get upset about anything, but let's just say how many could go a whole week?

Well, Jesus has given us peace, John 1427.

My peace I leave with you, not as the world gives to I give unto you my own special peace I now give to you.

But here's the important part.

So stop allowing yourselves to be upset and disturbed.

Stop allowing yourselves to be fearful and intimidated.

And I love to say this and I don't know how many of us really get this, but we're partners with God.

God is not going to do everything for us while we sit back and do nothing.

Doesn't know what prayer is.

Prayer is not just asking God to fix your problems.

It's also cooperating and asking Him if there's something He wants you to do.

To change things.

And so Jesus has given us peace, but it's our job to hang on to it.

And I'm an expert in this because I was not peaceful. Trust me.

And if I can learn to live in peace, anybody can learn to live in peace.

But I had to be willing to make a lot of changes.

And I said last night and I'll say it again, you are never going to walk in peace.

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